I've seen it all now...

I hope to post a photo to this first posting tomorrow when I drive by again to take a picture.

Passed an animal shelter and their sign read: Mouse needs knee surgery please help $

Wow! Perhaps "mouse" is a name for one of the dogs or cats? =) To cute.

Dont count on it... I have a teacher here that spent over 1000 on her pet rodent so some life saving thing... it died 6m later.

no way!?! Oh my gosh! I've never heard of such a thing! I bet the lil' mouse is a cutie but ah-hem...wow...I wouldn't do it.

I'll post a picure later. Gotta get it on camera so my family will believe me. LOL!

Yep... A mouse might live for a year so.... how long will it be any good? Anyway I am all for being kind to animals I just think some times the kind thing to do is to let them go to the sky...

At least that is me, I know others feel very diffrent so I am sure they will raise the money needed.

Surely it couldn't cost that much right???

My bet... well I know my aunt spent almost 5,000 for dog knee replacment due to the small size...


sooo 5-7,000 ?? unless they have a vet that will do it cheap. I have seen the smaller animals cost more on the whole for anything like that.

Oh my! I'd never of thought that. And the vets in this area are pretty pricey. More so than when I lived in Bryan/CS. My "country boy" vet (he specialized in farm animals but had an office to take all animals) only charged me $65 for fixing and front declawing my male cat. I couldn't even get ONE of those same procedures at that price in SA...and it was only a year later when I compared pricing! Sure miss that vet. =)

My daughter's second dog has cataracts. The vet (some kind of specialty) will fix the cataracts for $2000 an eye. I think the dog is just going to have to get a cane or a seeing eye dog.

A dig with a seeing eye dog. Now THAT'S cute!

Very cute.... and cheaper I bet.

I had a Cocker Spaniel that developed cataracts. Vet sent us to see the doggie opthamologist. He checked out dog's eyes and said we could take him up to A&M for the surgery, but it was painful and our dog wouldn't understand why we were putting him through it. Then he asked, "Does your dog drive?'' When I said no...he said, "Well, if he doesn't drive, I'd just let him be. He'll do fine seeing out of one eye for a while. And since he's a house dog, he knows his way around as long as you don't move the furniture!" I think I paid about $80. for that 15 minutes of wisdom.

WOW. That stinks...the cost and your poor pup's vision. Yeah, something about these bigger areas...costs more for vets. I thought that of family docs to but I found one who only charges $65 for the first visit and it's only $55 after that! Pretty good! (Some I called wanted like $100)!

medical just costs too much... no matter who it is for it just costs too much.

Our dog had an ear infection and it costs $165 for the vet and meds. The follow up visit was an additional $16. I thought the original visit was pretty bad but paying for a follow up, shouldn't that have been included in the original bill?

I agree hcm!

mitch: I agree on the med part but I know first hand if you say you don't have insurance (like when I had my baby) and do not use the welfare type programs then the doctors and hospitals totally cut you a good break. I only paid out about $5,500 for my whole pregnacy, delivery, hospital stay, epidural, etc and had a top notch OB doc.

to bad you can't negotiate price with vets!

Yes, we found that out when DD needed eye surgery on her lazy eye. She asked first it we had insurance. We said no. She said "OH well, since you don't have insurance you pay 5,000 instead of l0,000. Wow, what an education we got!

Must be why to buy health insurance is so high? So it's the doctor's fees that's at fault....not the insurance companies? It was quite the education for us to. The hosp said a c-section would have only cost 2 grand more and only $300 more from my OB to do one! My parents paid 10 grand for one 12 years ago alone! What a savings. I had a doctor to when I didn't have insurance who'd give me tons of sample inhalers to use. Saved me a lot. I didn't even have to ask for them!

Insurance is a big game.. they dont charge the insurance places that much - if you ask them for the real ammount the insurance paid it is close to half. So why make it look like it costs so much to start with right? I learned that the hard way when my BIL worked for a big insurance place... they pay very little for a lot of things. They get charged the big rate and then only pay a little of it.

Just bear in mind -- the insurance companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and doctors are all in it for the same reason -- to make money. They have it all figured out, and everyone else is who they get the money from.

I love animals as much as anyone, but knee surgery for a mouse? Sorry -- I had to be talked into knee surgery for myself (and I WAS RIGHT -- I WAS BETTER OFF BEFORE I HAD IT) let alone for an animal. What's next, botox injections for pugs?

Health insurance is the biggest crap shoot going. A very lucrative fund raiser for people who know how to work it.

Isn't that the truth? We could ALL make it on minimum wage if that layer of our society were gone.

Maybe we should get in the game... whould be a bigger gardening budget..

lol

OR... how about we band together and start a gardening insurance company? They have vet insurance (which I find utterly appalling). We could calculate the odds, write the fine print very carefully, and make enough to take over HD!!!!

I'm in Brigidlily. Where do I sign up? If I could just make enough to pay off my house and other debts, I would leave HD to you. Then I would work when I feel like it to support my gardening habits and play in my yard the rest of the time.

All we'll need is to say we'll cover any plant that dies -- unless it dies by some act of God/Goddess. In other words, we'll never have to pay out!

MUAH HA HA HA HA HA

Great idea! We're no dummies are we?

silver you said it best:

Brigidlily, I knew you were mischievous but that plan of yours is downright devious!! I like it. !!!

HD sales are actually in the slumps. Their stock keeps going down while Lowe's is boosting! Shouldn't be to hard to take them over. =) I'm in!

"hospital fund" - - lol ... here we go that is for the low income on chips and the no insurance and illegeal folks to get free medical care..

Dont forget to add that flooding, overwatering and other acts of water are not covered, not our area. Also you ahve to make them send in the dead plant for an evaluation - at their cost... If our experts think the plant died from act of God or water well we just dont cover it..

LOL

I am in... HD - then Lowes - then the world...

Yeah, I hate that hospt fund.

When I had 4 pear trees suffer blight (had it when we bought them but thought it was just dead leaves and I later learned on Dave's what it was...THANKS DAVES!). I took some limbs into HD and the mgr told me I had to bring the trees in root ball and all. Boy was DH steamed. But he had fun working it off pushing and pulling on those darn trees to get them out and we had fun wheeling the dirty mess into HD and leaving it. ROFLOL!

Phooey, apparently you cannot EDIT a post with a picture, hence why you can't then delete a picture.

So I'll post the sign here.

I checked and found that Mouse is a very small two-year-old dog. The shelter is trying to collect donations for the surgery and find a home for the dog afterwards. Here's a link:
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/TX367.html

I checked back up at the top of my posts...thought I had said this but guess not (???) but I WAS wondering if "Mouse" was the NAME of one of their dog/cats!!!! Oh I feel so much better now but feel terrible making light of his problem. I hope they will be able to collect the funds. I would recommend changing the sign. The last sign was that a chihuahua needed surgery....then they posted "chihuahua doing fine...thanks for helping!" That sign brought in the needed donations.

This message was edited Feb 2, 2007 12:49 PM

Don't feel bad, we have had a lot of fun and we didn't hurt anything.
People should be more careful about what they put on a sign, it was clearly misleading.
Josephine.

=) Thanks Josephine.

Hey... after we analyze it, we can charge them for the analysis...

Glad you cleared that up about the dog, Tir. And I surely hope I haven't sounded like even a mouse is not worth the effort or money to make it whole and comfortable -- that is NOT the way I feel. We've just gotten out-of-hand moneywise, insurance and all.

I'm sending prosperity vibes to the shelter, and healing vibes to mouse...

=)

I want that dog... it is sooooo cute!